On 10/24/21, Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote: > I wonder at the ethics and legality of using the computer system of a school, > for your own personal business
Well yes, what I had in mind wasn't exactly kosher, but in a sense I wasn't hacking their rear ends or messing with their computers in a way that would actually alter their own setup. I was "just" using their RAM and processor's ticks (to put it somehow), so, as I understand things, all they would have to do is remove the virtualization software to have their thing exactly as they had given it to me and yes, I was a bit lazy. I was trying to avoid using, minding another computer ... Also I wanted to leave their computer on with email and such related business ... while still being able to multitask (which I do quite naturally, even unconsciously) from another virtualized view. At the end of the day I would have removed my USB micro drive and we would be all happy. Something in me tells me this should be technically possible. > I also wonder how Leibniz is relevant to this scenario ... and I wonder if you clinically lack some sense of humor or probably your thoughts and jokes are flying too high and fast for me to follow them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-evil/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide In my way of interpreting his philosophy. He wasn't really talking about "evil"/"good", "optimism"/"pessimism" ... to see that you must understand his "God" in a "characteristica universalis" kind of way, but then again this might be off topic here in a computer related group or maybe it is very much topical, who knows. lbrtchx
